This is a mostly photo tutorial of how I created my second ever quilt. First was my daughters little cuddle blanket.
Yes, I was ambitious in creating a queen sized one. It was a need. My husband and I got really tired of only having one comforter for our bed and I wasn’t about to go out and spend $60+ on a comforter set that I wasn’t 100% in love with.
This certainly took a lot of time and patience to complete. The time in my day is very limited for crafting and all the other endeavors I have going at the moment. There are some things that I probably could have done differently, but overall my hubby and I are thrilled with the result. Other than it being a very warm blanket… LOL! Guess we’ll just have to turn on the AC at night. At least till we move here in August.
Anyways, here is a basic little tutorial. Enjoy 🙂
This is me figuring out how many squares I would need and what size they should be. I’m not a math person by any means.
I’ve been slacking on here recently. However, there is a perfectly legitimate reason! I promise.
There is quite a bit going on in this house recently. Lots of projects that take more than just a couple of days to finish. Whats more is these particular project require the littlest lady of the house to be taking a nap which she has been refusing to do as of late.
What are these projects you might ask? Well here’s some photo’s of what’s going on so far as well as what I intend to do with the messes 😛
Wooden Pallets:
Yay for naps! With both dogs and little Nora bug taking a nap I was able to finish the blanket.
The baby blanket. This is the second part of the cuddle blanket I posted about earlier. A few more photos this time 🙂 So, I realized that I didn’t have any quilt or blanket binding so I had to improvise. Also, I didn’t really want to use batting because I didn’t want to make it super thick. Instead, I used fusible fleece. Since this is a small cuddle blanket and not a huge quilt I figured I could get away with these. I’m not sure how they would work on a full quilt. So first I cut the backing and interfacing to the size of the quilted top. Then, I fused the fleece (interfacing) to the quilted top. In my head this seemed like it would help with the longevity of the blanket. After that put the backing and quilted top Right Sides Together and pin.
Spunky Punky 